22nd June 2002 - End of season presentations.

I forgot to take my digital camera to the end of season presentations. Thanks therefore go to Sue Rawlings for allowing me to scan the following..

11th June 2002 TREASURERS REPORT 

TO THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT THE WESLEY ROAD CLUB IN TROWBR1DGE ON TUESDAY JUNE 18 2002

  “OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH”

As I write these notes yet more rain rather reminiscent of the second half of our third season - which was really
over by the end of November. We had an early exit from the two Cup competitions and trailed eventual League Champions Shrewton. Still we finished a creditable fourth — but it could have been better. This did have some effect on our finances though we finished the season with a welcome surplus of almost £6,000 swelling our accumulated funds to £21,100. This is a credit to our loyal band of supporters in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and throughout the UK.

Income dropped by over £1000, but YOUR support for our fundraising efforts still brought in over £9,000. Our match admission receipts held up well. They were bolstered by the successful season ticket launch with over 50 of you taking up the offer. This enabled us to pay our ground rental in advance. Our match day programmed (superbly produced by editor Andrew Meaden) paid for itself. It is not easy, however, to attract sufficient advertising and there will be a small increase to 5Op a copy for the coming season. Hopefully we can keep it at this level for at least a couple of seasons. We also hope to introduce a two-tier season ticket this year. There will be one to cover just the 17 home League matches, or one to include membership and match programme.  Some members have requested this. Thank you for your generous contributions to the match day raffles, and to Eileen and her sales team! Thanks are also due to the indomitable David Meaden for his continued efforts with the N.O.W. Pontoon, and to the Wesley Road Club team for hosting our social events.

So many of you — especially those living outside Wiltshire help us with continued membership, enrolling in the Friends scheme, and participating in our End of Season Grand Draw. We enlisted one hundred Friends whose names appeared in every programme (just £10 for the season), and the Draw, which was jointly organised with the Trowbridge Town Youth Football Club this year had more prizes and once again proved successful. Initially the take up appeared to be slow — hence my wife’s comment “Oh ye of little faith” when I expressed my early dismay! Now I am smiling. Hopefully this is the first of many joint social and fundraising events with the Youth side. All of your contributions count — however small. But we must give a special thanks to Ian Robinson of Trowbridge who sold £166 worth of tickets and Peter Sherwood of Warminster who raised £119.

Most of our expenditure was concerned with getting a team onto the pitch and the small overall increase was in line with inflation.

WANTED!!

Volunteers for team distribution of membership leaflets — phone Eileen Harding on 01225 762579.

Also newsletter distributors in Trowbridge, and contacts for programme adverts/sponsorship/prizes. Please phone me on 01225 704063. With all the competition we get from other organizations especially charities it is not easy! Our thanks once again to Chris Bowyer for printing all our newsletters, to Robin Sims for his ready supply of statistics, to our distributors and our auditor Graham Brown. A big thank you to all those who provided prizes in the End of Season Draw. Finally my personal thanks to my wife Diane and daughter Jenny for their unstinting behind the scenes support. Now for some cricket. See you all next season.

  Roy While, Treasurer

  11th June 2002 LIST OF PRIZEWINNERS FOR THE 2002 GRAND DRAW

Howard Travel Weekend for two in Paris. Mrs Chant, Trowbridge.
Colour T.V.S.McBarnett, Trowbridge.
Mountain Bike Mrs.D.While**, Melksham (**Re donated for a future raffle.)
Single Bed Ms. M.Thomas, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Chandler’s Coaches, Mr.E.Gamble, Trowbridge.
Passport tickets for Longleat K.McNeil, Trowbridge.
One Day Pass for Center Parcs L.Augrict, Trowbridge.
Lunch for two at Cumberwell Park Golf Club, A Otterwell, Jersey.
Voucher for Red and White Shop/Restaurant, Mrs.J Chandler, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Pitt’s, Mrs S. Lemon, Trowbridge.
2 Bottles of Wine, Mrs.S.Dufosee, Warminster.
Match of the Day Football, Mrs J.Sims, Trowbridge.
Chocolates, A McDonald, Box of Roses Chocolates, Mr.I.York, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Tesco’s D.Feast, Warminster.
Hutchinson's Encyclopedia donated by Ottakars, N. Francis Trowbridge.
Book of the World Cup A.Barnard, Fareham, Hants.
Voucher for Wiltshire College Restaurant Mrs D. Thornton, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Wiltshire College Restaurant Neil Carnes, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Trowbridge Garden Centre Mr. N. Armstrong, Chippenham.
Voucher for the Chicago Rock Café Mrs.P.Davies, Trowbridge.
Voucher for Wilkinson’s P.Ratnett, Trowbridge
Bottle of Whisky, Mr.D.Hyde, Hilperton .
Set of “Frost” books,  Mr.Lloyd-Smith, London.
Voucher for Gloucestershire County Cricket Mr.A.Cunningham, Trowbridge. C.Haines, Trowbridge

30th May  2002 - Alan Roberts, Andy O'Pray & Ted Miluk Resign

The following statement was sent to the Wiltshire Times by the club for publication on Friday 31st May.....
Manager Alan Roberts and his assistants Andy O’Pray and Ted Miluk are standing down after three successful years. The new Trowbridge Town Football Club was formed in 1998 and, playing at Woodmarsh, the home of the Trowbridge Town Youth Football Club, won the Wiltshire Intermediate League in their first season. Then, following promotion to the Wiltshire County League they finished sixth in 2001. This year they finished fourth despite a season interrupted by bad weather and cancellations.

23rd February 2002 - Site featured on Trowbridge Net

I am pleased to report that this site is now featured in the clubs and organisations section of Trowbridge Net.

This well presented site provides links and information regarding services and recreation in the Trowbridge and Warminster areas. 

At present, the business section is more populated but gradually this site will grow into a useful source for local information.

Click the logo to view the site now, you may just find that local service you've been looking for.

22nd December 2001 - Christmas Party

Muriel Armstrong recently celebrated her 80th birthday and was presented with a bouquet of flowers by the Mayor at the TTFC annual Christmas party. Muriel, still actively involved in supporting and helping the club has been a supporter since she was only five years old.

The live entertainment for the evening was provided by Budgie and the Tits who sounded better than ever.
Plus stand-up bingo and a dance competition hosted by me!
I hope everyone enjoyed the evening, Happy Christmas and a Happy new year to all.

Robin

26th November 2001 - Injury update.

Goalkeeper Adam Sheppard, had to leave the field with an injury at Wroughton but unfortunately things got worst for him in the week to come. He was taken to hospital early in the week following with appendicitis and had to have a operation. Get well soon, Shep.
Note: See guest book entry from Adam. (People are always spelling my name Simms instead of Sims so I know exactly what he means. All entries on the site have now been corrected)
Chris Henry missed the game at Biddestone and is likely to be out until after Christmas. He suffered a groin injury whilst playing in a midweek league representative match.

4th November 2001 - Important Site information
I have received the following e-mail which should explain the recent problems you may have had when trying to access this site using the registered domain name:- www.trowbridgetownfc.co.uk
"The registration body that I register my domain names through provides the free forwarding on all my redirected domains and as of late has been very unreliable, thus resulting in your redirection failure over the past few days.
To make amends I am providing free hosting for you for the next 12 months to include 250Mb on one of my high speed commercial servers. Hopefully at the end of the 12 months the redirection service will be more reliable or I could offer you an ultra special price on continuing the commercial hosting. The big advantage for you now that you have your domain properly hosted (rather than pointed at free space) is that you can get listed on all the major search engines that will not list sites redirected or hosted upon free space.  

21st October 2001 - Forum Poll Results
As you can see from the results below, there was a resounding Yes vote for a TTFC forum.
Yes 73%, Might be 16%, No 11%, No Idea, don't care 0%
A forum will therefore be up and running on a trial basis soon.

08th October 2001
Congratulations to Chris Henry & Adam Nunn. 
They have been chosen to represent the Wiltshire League against a Wiltshire FA Under 21 team to be played at Corsham Town on Wed 24th October kick off 7.30pm. Update: Match finished 2-2, Chris played 90 minutes, Adam played last 20.

3rd October 2001 - Should this site include a forum?
I have received a request for a forum so that people can post rumours about the club. If I were to set one up it would have to be a general forum as there probably wouldn't be enough rumours!
I would be able to monitor the forum and delete unwanted entries but, there are two sides to this.
For - It would be a great place to share opinions and get to know other visitors.
Against - It would cause problems, possibly involving other clubs.
What do you think, please use this mini poll to vote....

30th September 2001 - Marlborough games called off as mark of respect.
Marlborough Town called all their games off yesterday as a mark of respect for Matthew Spencer who was killed in a car crash earlier in the week. Matthew's father also plays for the club as first team goal-keeper.
On behalf of Trowbridge Town FC via this site, I offer my deepest sympathy to Matthew's family and to Marlborough Town Football Club following this sad event. 

Robin

2nd September 2001 - Please read this if you use Ltrack.

For some time now, my Ltrack file has been available for download on the tables page but I have not monitored downloads so I don't know if anybody uses it. 
I am thinking of enabling the automatic update feature but there is no point if people do not use the files.
Please therefore Email me  if you use Ltrack and would therefore benefit from an auto update feature.
Thanks.
Robin

6th August 2001 - Chance to see Adie
Nigle Vile supplied the following information in case any of you would like a chance to see the hero of Budgie's song in action...
"Thought Trowbridge fans might like to know that on 22nd august (Wednesday) Chippenham are home to Cinderford.
This might be the last chance supporters get to see Adie Harris playing in this area .... assuming he's selected to play that evening.
He has been playing in Cinderford's pre-season friendlies according to the western daily press who describe Adie as a "veteran" !"

Thanks Nigel

3rd August  2001 - Pages on the move and delay during early season updates.

19th July  2001 - Friends of Trowbridge Town....

The Friends of Trowbridge Town Scheme started last year and has proved to be a successful source of income for the club. For just £10 per season your name will be quoted in every home match day programme as a "friend" of the club, on a special dedicated page.

The latest entry into this "hall of fame" is shown below.

Welcome to RANDOLF the first official canine supporter of Trowbridge Town Football Club

17th July  2001 - AGM news and notes.

The third TTFC AGM took place at Wesley Road Club tonight. Reports given by The Secretary, Chairman & Treasurer and Team Manager, Alan Roberts were all very positive with thanks to all club and committee members that have contributed to the clubs progress.
There were three changes to the Management Committee, Geoff Osbourne, Mark Edwards & Eileen Harding replacing Andrew Lye, George Bright & Andrew Meaden. Chairman, John Fitchen thanked the retiring officers and welcomed their replacements. 
The other main news on the night was:

• Season tickets will be available for the coming season, priced at £20.

• The Reserve Team will be playing in Division Two of the Trowbridge & District League.*

* The website will contain news of the reserve team including league tables, results etc
Fixtures for both leagues will appear as soon as confirmed information is received.

13th July  2001 - Important message/appeal from Neil Kirkpatrick

Neil Kirkpatrick left the following plea via the TTFC Guestbook, please help if you can......

"Robin can I ask any supporters via the website if they can help in any way at woodmarsh. We need some topsoil and we will be relaying the goalmouths on wed 18th July 7.00pm There is also loads of strimming around the ground to be done which can be done anytime
Thanks for your help"
Kirky

13th July  2001 - Training and friendly update.

The following friendly have now been added...
14/08/2001    Supporters Team (Provisional only, to be confirmed)
The players have now started training including the return of Will Astall and the two Lea's
I am told that everyone looked fit and can't wait for the new season!

7th July  2001 - Town sign Lea James & Lea Darby

Perhaps 2001 should have been a LEAp year!
Lea James who was always a favourite when Trowbridge were in the Southern League and Lea Darby, also an ex bee have rejoined our club.
Lea James, related to our goalkeeping coach, Ian Diamond played at Wembley for Chippenham in the Vase final and also played a major part in their successful promotion to the Southern League last season. He has decided to join Trowbridge as the clubs in the Wiltshire League are more local and it should be easier for him to combine his football with work commitments. 
These two signings are seen as a major boost towards our aim of winning the Wiltshire League and progressing to the Western League.

Welcome back!

3rd July  2001 - Addkey Senior Cup Draw
Only two teams need to contest the preliminary round of the Addkey Senior Cup and Trowbridge have been drawn against Purton Reserves to decide who will host Bradford Town in the first round proper.
The full draw and the date for this match will be published as soon as further information is obtained.

21st June 2001- Pre season friendlies

The following matches have been arranged..
28/07/2001    Frome Town (Away) 3pm
4/08/2001      Melksham Town (Away) 3pm
11/08/2001   Calne Town (Away) 3pm